Life term for killer of three in New Jersey schoolyard

Fri Nov 5, 2010

BBC News

A Honduran man has been given three life sentences for the execution-style murder of three New Jersey students in a schoolyard in 2007.

Prosecutors said Melvin Jovel, 21, lined them against a wall in and shot them one-by-one in the head.

Jovel pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges. A fourth person was shot but survived.

Authorities in the city of Newark said he and five accomplices were taking part in a gang initiation ritual.

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